All Editorial articles – Page 162
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NewsShowtime at site of art deco cinema
DLA Architecture’s mixed-use scheme on the site of a grade-II listed art deco cinema in Eltham, south-east London, has started on site this week
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Opinion
Cracking Brazil
In response to your story “Practices look abroad as double dip looms” (News August 13), I believe that there are two main reasons why very few foreign architectural practices have acted in Brazil so far
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NewsNew chapter for Croydon Carnegie library as Fat brings it up to date
Thornton Heath Library in Croydon has reopened to the public after a £1.5 million renovation and extension project by Fat.
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Opinion
Resorts should kick the bucket
Recent news that the average visitor to Redcar spends just £1.70 typifies the problems of Britain’s many rundown seaside towns
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NewsHadid’s debut London building nears opening day
Zaha Hadid Architects’ first building in England – and the practice’s first school – has now been completed
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NewsSimpson’s Leeds towers cancelled
Ian Simpson’s scheme to build one of Europe’s tallest residential towers in Leeds has been formally scrapped by the developer.
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FeaturesI feel a sneeze coming...
Defeat was on the cards for Victoria Maitland when her world record was smashed by this master stacker 73 years later
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NewsDesign guide could ‘stifle creativity’ in homes sector
Architects have admitted the new London Housing Design Guide could jeopardise hope of an early recovery in the residential market
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OpinionDo we need national design standards for housing?
Ewan Willars thinks standards will provide the challenge to produce innovative design, while Andrew Whitaker thinks there is no place for them in private housing
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Opinion
Firm responds
I wish to add some much-needed clarification to the story published on August 17
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Opinion
Shaving foam
I deeply resent your characterisation of the Strata tower as “decked out with Philishave stylings” (Carbuncle Cup, August 13).
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Opinion
I’m going to have to let you go
Everything’s getting dumped faster and faster, and that includes good stuff like Broadgate.
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Opinion
The resistance to regen starts here
Embracing every regeneration project on offer does no favours to our rundown urban areas
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ReviewPrefab Houses
A new book by Arnt Cobbers and Oliver Jahn overlooks the real big hitters of the industry.
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News
Light shines on Wallace scheme
Purcell Miller Tritton and John J O’Connell Architects have won planning for their extension to the Wallace art collection in central London after agreeing to lower the height of the roof lights following complaints by neighbours
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NewsRIBA joins alliance against coalition planning policies
The RIBA has joined a group of 29 national bodies in an unusual alliance against the coalition government’s proposed planning policies.
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NewsNWDA cuts hit capital projects in the North West
The North West Development Agency has announced that it will withdraw all non-contracted funding for regional projects, hitting schemes including Haworth Tompkins’ Everyman Theatre and Proctor and Matthews’ Chester Zoo project.
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OpinionBig society looks set to backfire
Even if you don’t side with critics of David Cameron’s Big Society, it’s hard to see how it’ll make any serious difference.
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NewsCabe must cut back to core, say former bosses
Lipton and Rouse call for watchdog to focus on design reviews and produce fewer reports.